Love of Wisdom
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Friend to Mankind
ISBN: 0856831840 - ebook
Read moreEighteen essays re-examine Ficino’s life and work focusing on three essential aspects: his significance in his own times, his spreading influence throughout Europe and over subsequent centuries in many areas of thought and creativity, and his enduring relevance today.
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The Hidden Girl
The Journey of a Soul
Finalist in the PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE SUMMER COLLECTION 2019 for Non-fiction and First Time Author.
ISBN: 9780856835223 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basketThis book charts the author’s long journey of healing from the trauma caused by having to go into hiding as a child and having to deny that she was Jewish. Marika Henriques reveals how she was shaped and her profession determined by historical events and ultimately how she returned to her tradition and people.
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A World in Two Minds
Why we must change our thinking to change our future
Chosen for Winter 2018 PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction.
ISBN: 9780856835216 - Hardback
£20.00 Add to basketGlobal society is in a state of chaos, causing physical and mental suffering for people all over the world. Yet almost all life stresses are ultimately human-made. Our species is literally making itself sick. Our future is unknown but whatever we bring forth will certainly be the output of the global mind we collectively create.
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The Laws of Manu
A New Translation
ISBN: 9780856835230 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basketThis new translation offers a contemporary rendering of this ancient work which addresses fundamental questions of law and duty for all members of society.
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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 1
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780856835162 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basketMarsilio Ficino of Florence (1433-99) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Renaissance. This is the 2nd edition of the first in his series of letters, translated from the original Latin.
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Discovering God
A collection of illustrated meditations on the personality of God
Chosen for Spring 2015 PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780856835056 - paperback
£10.00 Add to basket“Discovering God is a deeply insightful and extremely accessible set of meditations enriched and amplified by beautiful and sensitive illustrations – each one a meditation in itself.”
Abbot Stuart, OSB -
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 11 (Book XII)
Volumes 1-10 are available here as a complete set at a reduced price.
ISBN: 9780856835193 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basketDue October 2020
The letters in this eleventh volume cover the period from autumn 1492 to the spring of 1495, when they appeared in print. This volume and its companions contain the first English translation of the letters written by the philosopher-priest who helped to shape the changes that we associate with the Renaissance. -
On the Nature of Love
Ficino on Plato's Symposium
Finalist in 2015-16 PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE for Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780856835094 - Paperback
£14.95 Add to basketOn the Nature of Love is a translation of Marsilio Ficino’s commentary to Plato’s Symposium. This edition makes Ficino’s Tuscan version available to English readers for the first time. Ficino's work was eagerly taken up by court circles throughout Europe and became part of their standard fare for the next two centuries.
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The Gilgamesh Gene
The Human Condition
Sale!ISBN: 9780856835148 - Hardback
The Gilgamesh Gene is about the human condition, and in particular what it is in our make-up that has brought us, along with most other species, to the brink of extinction. The author draws on the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh to shed light on our predicament.
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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 10 (Book XI)
Volumes 1-10 are available here as a complete set at a reduced price.
ISBN: 9780856835001 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basketThese volumes contain the first English translation of the corpus of letters published during the lifetime of the philosopher priest who helped to shape the Renaissance worldview. The letters in this volume span April 1491 to September 1492. This is a crucial period for Marsilio Ficino and Florence itself, for it witnessed the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
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Under the Guise of Spring
The message hidden in Botticelli's Primavera
Chosen for Autumn 2014 PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780856832963 - Hardback
£20.00 Add to basketReprinted with additional material June 2020
Rather like the Mona Lisa, there has long been a suspicion that there is something disguised in the Primavera. A chance discovery provided the author with the key to unlocking the secret of the 500 year-old masterpiece, opening a window onto the cryptic world of the Renaissance pagan revival. -
East Meets West
Chosen for Spring 2014 PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780856832864 - Paperback
£13.95 Add to basket"In East Meets West John Adago engagingly describes some of the most significant figures in this subtle and profound history. It is a welcome addition to the global conversation." Philip Goldberg, author of American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West
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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 9 (Book X)
ISBN: 9780856832895 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basketThis series contains the first English translation of the letters of the philosopher priest, Marsilio Ficino, who helped to shape the Renaissance worldview. This volume brings together correspondence from the last decade of Marsilio Ficino's life, spanning the period late 1489 to spring 1491.
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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 8 (Book IX)
ISBN: 9780856832420 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basketThese volumes contain the first English translation of the letters of the philosopher priest, Marsilio Ficino, who helped to shape the Renaissance worldview. This volume contains letters written in 1488 and 1489, with a preface added in the summer of 1490.
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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 7
ISBN: 9780856831928 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basket"All that we regard as the norm of Western European art - Botticelli's paintings, Monteverdi's music, Shakespeare's philosophical lovers - has flowed from Ficino's Florence." Kathleen Raine, The Times
"Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was at the very fountainhead of some of the most characteristic and influential aspects of the Italian Renaissance."
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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 6
ISBN: 9780856831676 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basket"This body of work constitutes a crucial attempt at intellectual and emotional synthesis. Ficino strives to combine in a system at once harmonious and formally coherent three great strands of doctrine or speculation: Platonism, Christianity and that exceedingly rich current of hermetic, “magical” or cabalistic lore which underlies much of Renaissance culture."
Prof. George Steiner, The Sunday Times"Only a life dedicated by choice to the study and cultivation of truth is lived in the fullness of bliss beyond movement and beyond time." Ficino
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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 5
ISBN: 9780856831294 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basket"To many who are nauseated by the positivist atheism which on the mass media passes for 'humanism', these letters will be water in the desert." Kathleen Raine, The Sunday Telegraph
"First is God, second is the contemplation of God, third is the love of and adoration of God. These things are able to give us that peace which the world, being everywhere full of discord, cannot give." Ficino
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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 4
ISBN: 9780856830709 - Hardback
£25.00 Add to basket"The subjects which occupy Ficino and his friends, are of perennial and indeed painfully topical interest." Church Times
"Since therefore we all wish to be happy, and happiness cannot be obtained without the right use of our gifts, and since knowledge reveals their proper use, we should leave all else aside and strive with the full support of philosophy and religion to become as wise as possible." Ficino
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